How much of art comes from the artist?

So which is more of the artist: the person who can technically play any song written by someone else, or the person who plays from the heart, creating their own music?

Paint by numbers, sewing with patterns, playing someone else's music and computer generated poetry is not art, IMHO. It is your interpretation through someone else's art.

So technically, it still is art at its core. But it is not your art.

----- "Milk is for babies. When you grow up, you have to drink beer." - Arnold